Coffee-pot



J. C. GOVE. Coffee Pot.

Patented March 13, 1866.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. .GOVE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

COFFEE-POT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,139, dated March 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN C. GOVE, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coffee-Pots; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section.

A A represent the body of the coffee-pot. The lower third part has double walls A A and a double bottom, B B, thus forming a water-space, O, which entirely encircles the lower third of the body and extends over the whole bottom, as shown at O in Fig. 2.

A pipe, D, having a funnel-shaped mouth, extends down the external side of the bodyA A and communicates with the water-chamber G O.

The interior of the pot is provided with a receptacle for the ground coffee, and shown at E in Fig. 2. This receptacle rests upon the upper end of the body A and can be removed at pleasure for the purpose of charging with coffee and discharging the coffee-grounds. This receptacle has a double perforated bottom, F G. The lower one has its walls thimble-shaped, and this passes over the lower end of the part E and can be removed, when necessa-ry, for the purpose of introducing the coffee, as above stated. The coffee is put into the space H and compressed between the perforated plates F and G. The infusion is made by pouring hot .water into the vessel E, which must necessarily pass through the colfee in the chamber Hinto the chamber I, and it is then ready for use.

The cover J of the coffee-pot is provided with a water-joint to prevent the escape of the aroma.

By pouring water, either hot or cold, into the chamber 0, through the pipe D, the lower portion of the chamber I is kept surrounded with water, so that the vessel can be set upon a hot stove or even upon live coals without danger of burning the infusion.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of a colfee-pot having a water-joint cover, J,an exterior water-cham ber, O, and tube D, and theinteriorcotfee-chamber, I, and receptacle E, the several parts being constructed and combined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JOHN C. GOVE.

Witnesses W. H. BURRIDGE, A. W. MOOLELLAND. 

